Epidemiología del trauma de pacientes atendidos en el Hospital UTPL, durante enero 2012 a diciembre 2013

Abstract

This work is about making the epidemiological profile of trauma in the UTPL hospital service located in the Loja city, during January 2012 to December 2013. It is a retrospective, descriptive and transversal study approach in which process data collection records the same as were sorted and tabulated.

This Study worked with a total of 702 records of patients diagnosed with trauma, which were classified considering parameters such as age, gender, adding the area of the concerned injury, also found the 10 leading causes of morbidity and the 10 principal complications founded in these patients including mortality and permanent sequels.

As a result, the male group exceeds women, all of them with ages between 36-64 years with a percentage of 33.0%; of these patients the most affected area was the musculo-skeletal; the type of trauma morbidity was the sprain, strain and rupture of ligaments of the ankle (S93); Its main complications were acute tendinitis and septic shock; and chronic mild functional limitation and amputation.